“There is no ‘front door’ to the commons, and the tools people need to curate, share, and remix works aren’t yet available,” said Creative Commons CEO Ryan Merkley. “We want to make the commons more usable, and this is our next step in that direction.”
The new search engine boasts images from 19 collections, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Cleveland Museum of Art, Behance, DeviantArt and others. With plans to keep growing the overall collection, Creative Commons has stated the desire to prioritize collections like Europeana and Wikimedia Commons.
Future plans include indexing content beyond just photos, tapping into other Creative Commons content like textbooks and audio, and eventually indexing all 1.4 billion works in the commons.
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